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To: Gabz
Well, you are not really correct here. You are not paying for your health care. Your insurance company is paying for your health care. They negotiate a fee with doctor and the doctor accepts payment for that service.

If you are healthy, your premiums and deductibles could far exceed the amount of care you actually receive. That excess pays the freight of others that use alot of service. Some receive service far in excess of their premium and deductible. Hence, they are being carried by the more healthy policyholder.

If your insurance carrier does not differentiate between the premiums paid by the lean and the obese, the lean probably pay more than they receive in benefits.

If smokers use more health care than non-smokers and the carrier does not differentiate between the two in the amount paid in premiums, the non-smoker will pay the freight of the smoker.

If you have never had a claim on your car insurance, you are paying the freight for some lead-footed kid who has been in loads of accidents.

There is a difference between entering into these insurance transactions voluntarily and having the guvmint picking up the tab and forcing it down the throats of the taxpayer.

186 posted on 05/11/2004 11:38:30 AM PDT by Don'tMessWithTexas
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To: Don'tMessWithTexas
I am paying for my insurance coverage and through it and my taxes am paying for those who neither have insurance nor pay taxes.

It doesn't matter if I smoke or not I am still being forced to pay for those who choose not to pay and crank up my premiums and taxes in the process.
190 posted on 05/11/2004 12:24:49 PM PDT by Gabz (Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than second hand smoke.)
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